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Ever had to fight with a bank for them to take your money?

That's the situation I'm in right now. I took out two loans to contribute to my RRSPs this year. I took them with the national bank of canada, and they are the preferred partner for Investor's Group (my financial planners). I love my account manager at IG. He's a great guy. Never had a glitch with him. The bank people are fully-qualified idiots. Nimrods of the greatest caliber. Every time I want to pay back something, it's an exercise in pain and stupidity.

I have to waste my time to try and convince them to take my money.

Ahem, fuck that.

Heya guys and gals.

I put my DVD list up to date. I keep one mostly for insurance purposes, as I've learned it's always easier to get a claim processed when you have the whole list of what you had^†. Pictures are also invaluable :D

The fringe benefit of this is that I now run a DVD club from my apartment. If you can see this list, it means I trust you to let you to borrow one, watch it at your leisure, and bring it back to me. As long as it's noted in the whiteboard in my kitchen, it's all good :P

25th Hour, The
Alegria
American Beauty
American History X
Animatrix
Any Given Sunday
Babylon 5 (Season 1)
Babylon 5 (Season 2)
Babylon 5 (Season 3)
Babylon 5 (Season 4)
Babylon 5 (Season 5)
Babylon 5 – The Gathering
Being John Malkovich
Ben Hur
Big Lebowski, The
Blown Away
Box of Moonlight
Caligula
Carlito's Way
Contact
Corruptor, The
Corsican Twins, The
Couch in New York
Count of Monte Cristo, The
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Cyrano de Bergerac
Daredevil
Dark City
Dark Crystal, The
Dead Poets Society
Enemy at the gates
Fifth Element, The
Fight Club
Frank Herbert's Dune
Freshman, The
Full Metal Jacket
Gladiator
Godfather – Part I, The
Good Will Hunting
Great Escape, The
Grosse Point Blank
Hackers
Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone
Heat
History of the world – Part 1
Hoodlums
Hustler's Barely Legal Volume 1
Insider, The
Italian Job, The
Kill Bill Volume 1
Kissing Jessica Stein
Last Man Standing
Last Samourai, The
Law & Order (Season 1)
Lethal weapon 1 – Director's Cut
Lethal weapon 2 – Director's Cut
Lethal weapon 3 – Director's Cut
Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
Lost in translation
Man in the iron mask, The
MASH Collector's Edition (Season 1)
MASH Collector's Edition (Season 2)
MASH Collector's Edition (Season 3)
MASH Collector's Edition (Season 4)
MASH Collector's Edition (Season 5)
MASH The Movie
Mask, The
Matrix, The
MIB
Minority Report
Monty Python – Quest for the Holy Graal – SE
Mummy, The
Muppet Show, Best of – 10 DVD
Muppet Treasure Island
Muppets from Space
My big fat greek wedding
Ninja Scroll
Ocean's Eleven
Office Space
Payback
Pink Floyd – The wall
Pirates of the Caribbean
Pulp Fiction
Pump Up the Volume
Replacement Killers, The
Reservoir Dogs
Ronin
Rounders
Scent of a Woman
Score, The
Seven
Shawshank Redemption, The
Sherlock Holmes Feature Film Collection (5 DVDs)
Shrek
Snatch
South Park – Bigger, Longer, Uncut
Spartacus
Spawn – The complete animated series
Spirited Away
Suicide Kings
Thomas Crown Affair, The
Three to Tango
Truth about cats and dogs, The
Two if by Sea
Untouchables, The
Who framed Roger Rabbit?
X-Men

This list is current as of: Jun 4, 2004

† I got robbed a few years ago.

I want to go see the new HP movie tonight. It's playing at the paramount ( 6:30, 7:00, 7:15, 7:40).

Any takers? I hate seeing movies alone, but I want to see this one.

Had lunch with my boss today.

Things went well, actually. We both aired our grievances, and what came out of it basically was we realized we'd had a communication breakdown, a situation we both agreed to work on. Other than that, he's still really happy with my work, which is always a good thing to know.

On a slightly more sobering note, when I asked about the overall state of the company, I was told that our financial situation is precarious, and that this might be our 3-month warning to start putting our CVs back up to date. He's optimistic about the long-term survival of the company, but he was simply giving me a heads up.

Anyway, it was a good lunch overall, and I'm feeling much better about my position in the company, so I'm a happy camper. For now, at least :)

raspberrysalmon sent me this link today:

http://www.pythonline.com/plugs/idle/index.shtml

Eric Idle presents… The FCC Song.

“Heres a little song I wrote the other day while I was out duck hunting with a judgeIts a new song, its dedicated to the FCC and if they broadcast it, it will cost a quarter of a million dollars.”

Hilarious :) Download it directly here

Oh geez, gimme a f'n break. Quoted from here: Church leaders strike deal to let Prince Charles re-marry

The issue of whether the royal heir can marry a divorcee has vexed constitutional experts for years, since the British monarch is the titular head of the Anglican church and thus officially expected to be beyond moral reproach.

Royalty is nothing more than a bunch of inbreds. Expecting them to be beyond moral reproach is like expecting my lunch to get up and dance the Macarena…

Went to have a drink with eniran after work last night. We both kinda needed it, though we didn't stay too long. Went DVD shopping afterwards, where I bought Muppet Treasure Island and Sherlock Holmes Feature Films collection. After that, we went to the post office to pick up a parcel that was waiting for me. After a false start of not going to the right post office (we went to the one where the parcels used to be kept when I was living on EM) and then discovering that the pharmacy near my house has a complete section I'd never even noticed (which contained said postal outlet), I got the bright yellow box containing a quite horrendous fridge magnet (yay!), and this little guy here:

I'm sorely tempted to call him George, but since I can't, his name is officially Rolf.

Ate some pasta goodness, then watched the Muppet movie, chatted a bit and called it a night.

*does the happy-friggin-dance*

After 3 days of having my brain leak out of my ears, I got everything to work.

I rule!

Hey [boss].

We need to talk. I was having lunch with [coworker], and he asked me how the tension situation between us was. My first reaction was to tell him everything was fine, but in fact, it's not. This is a new and unwelcome turn of events. This wasn't the case up until a few weeks ago, and I don't know how things went from hunky-dory to their present state. It seems that all our conversations are terse and tense. I have no idea what's going on, which is actually part of the problem. I get very little feedback from you about my work, about the state of the company, clients, prospects, anything. This makes me feel like my input is not important. You probably have issues with me, I know I have some with you. I'd like for us to put them on the table. Are you free for lunch tomorrow or Friday?

A+,
[me]

I don't know what this is going to do. Hopefully, things get better. At worse, well, I'm already looking for a new job right now anyway.